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UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

HENRY C. BAILEY, OF EDINBURG, INDIANA.

WOODEN MAT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 417,215, dated December17, 1889.

Application filed June 7, 1889.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY C. BAILEY, of Edinburg, county of Johnson, andState of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in\Vooden Mats; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full,clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, in which like letters refer to like parts.

My invention consists in the construction of mats or similar articlesfrom wooden blanks, and will be understood from the followingdescription.

In the drawings, Figure l is a top view of a door-mat constructed inaccordance with my invention. Fig.2 is a similar view of the blankitself as it comes from the saw. Fig. 3 is a section on the line y y,Fig. 1.

In detail, I) represents the blank just as it comes from the saws, madefrom a piece of thin stuif about an inch thick and five or six incheswide, preferably of hickory. It is placed under a series of thin sawsand slits s 8', cut in it in the manner shown in Fig. 2, every alternateslit .9 stopping short of the ends, and the other one 3' cut through atthe ends, leaving an unsawed space in the middle. The ends are thenpreferably tongued, as shown in Fig. 3, or dovetailed, and end pieces 6,having grooves corresponding to the shape of the tongue or dovetailed,are slid on the ends of the strips, and a hole is bored through thecenter along the line of the solid partof the blank. The material isthen opened in the saw-cuts in the manner shown in Fig. 1 and a rodpassed through the hole in the center and tacked where the rod passesthrough each strip, as shown at a, Fig. 1. The grooved pieces 6 arefastened upon the ends by small nails driven through at each strip, andthe manufacture is completed, with the exception of staining orpainting, which Serial No. 313,526. (No model.)

may be done in the ordinary way. The mat is elastic, and when the endpieces and central rod are removed it will spring back'in the positionshown in Fig. 2.

By my method of construction door-mats, stair-treads, and a variety ofsimilar articles are readily manufactured, and when made of hickory ortough fibrous material they will last a long time without renewing. Theyare light, easily handled, easily cleaned, and for many purposes aregreatly superior to any similar device made of metal.

Instead of the continuous rod 1', distanceblocks may be interposedbetween the adjacent strips, keeping them apart; but the rod ispreferable.

What I claim as my, invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is the following:

1. The elastic blank'b, having slits 5 cut through the center and notthrough the ends, and alternate slits 3 cut through the ends and notthrough the center, substantially as shown and described.

2. A door-mat its body portion formed of an elastic blank having theslits 3 cut through the center and not through the ends, the alternateslits .9 out through the ends and not through the center, such blankexpanded and its ends secured by end pieces e, substantially as shownand described.

3. A door-mat composed of an elastic body I), sawed or cut in the lines8 s, as shown, its ends secured by pieces 6, and secured at and throughits center by a rod 7, substantially as shown and described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 4th day of June,1889.

H. C. BAILEY.

Witnesses:

JAs. W. MAYFIELD, D. L. DEMING.

